21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel’s work on b2/cafélog.

I’ve been thinking a lot about elements that made WordPress successful in its early years that we should keep in mind as we build this year and beyond. Here’s 11 opinions:

1. Simple things should be easy and intuitive, and complex things possible.
   
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2. Wikis are amazing, and our documentation should be wiki-easy to edit.
   
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3. It’s important that we all do support, go to meetups and events, anything we can to stay close to regular end-users of what we make.

Congrats to WordPress and the team on 21 years. I think the following are some good elements to keep building on.